UNITED NATIONS: The Wayward Bus

For 72 hours last week the world
hovered on a brinknot the brink of war but a rare opportunity to take
the plunge toward peace.

The U.S. was not satisfied with its negative propaganda victory of the
week beforecompelling Russia to withdraw its U.N. charge that U.S.
bomber flights were a "threat to peace." Now, accenting the positive,
Henry Cabot Lodge went before the U.N. Security Council with a proposal
to open the top of the world above the Arctic Circle to international
inspection to guard against surprise aerial or missile attack. There...